San Francisco & Berkeley

Pragmatic, product-minded legal counsel for emerging tech ventures.

Fractional General Counsel and strategic advisor to founders, executive teams, and investors. Combining 25+ years of Silicon Valley startup law, hyperscale consumer internet leadership, and frontier AI product counseling.

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Antone Johnson

Fractional General Counsel • San Francisco

Prior In-House, Product & BigLaw Pedigree

Google (Android & AI Product Counsel) • Amazon • eHarmony (VP Legal / First GC) • MySpace (Asst. GC) • Wilson Sonsini

Putting the "General" in General Counsel

Startups rarely suffer from a lack of specialized legal memos; they suffer from a lack of business-aligned judgment. Having served both as outside deal counsel at Wilson Sonsini and as senior in-house executive at high-growth platforms, I bridge the gap between legal risk and shipping product.

Whether navigating a seed financing, structuring enterprise SaaS agreements, or conducting privacy and IP reviews for generative AI launches, I act as a pragmatic sounding board for CEOs, boards, and engineering leaders.

Education & Admissions

Columbia Law School: J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Williams College: B.A., cum laude, Economics
State Bar of California: Active Member

Fractional General Counsel & Founding Partner

Bottom Line Law Group

Advising seed- to growth-stage technology ventures, digital media platforms, and angel investors across corporate governance, venture financings, IP strategy, and commercial transactions.

Product & Business Line Counsel

Google & Amazon

Front-line product counsel supporting Android Open Source Project (AOSP) engineering teams across 2B+ devices (including privacy impact assessments for Gemini generative AI features) and business line counsel for major North America retail categories at Amazon.

VP, Legal Affairs & Corporate Secretary

eHarmony

Built the legal function from scratch as first General Counsel for a $200M+ VC-backed consumer internet leader with 22M+ registered users. Led board governance, international expansion, regulatory strategy, and M&A.

Assistant General Counsel / Corporate & Product

MySpace & Wilson Sonsini

Counseled MySpace as it hyperscaled from 1M to 200M+ users through its $650M acquisition by Fox Interactive Media. Began career executing VC financings, IPOs, and M&A at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

01 / Speed & Clarity

No-Nonsense Deal Execution

Big-firm rigor without big-firm overhead. Practical issue-spotting focused on closing enterprise revenue and financings without stalling momentum.

02 / Product-First

Built for Builders

Deep fluency in AI/ML workflows, data privacy, open-source licensing, and UGC platform risk, speaking the language of PMs and engineers.

03 / Flexible Engagement

Right-Sized Fractional Model

Predictable monthly retainers or targeted project engagements tailored to seed, Series A, and Series B companies not yet ready for a full-time CLO.